PinnedEnabling coherent explore spacesI have written before about the need to embrace messy coherence or in more technical terms, coherent heterogeneity, a term I first…Feb 20, 20211Feb 20, 20211
Embracing the Cracks: Navigating Tension in Complex TimesThe other day, I was talking to a particularly wise friend. I was lamenting that I didn’t know how to be in a world like this. Where people…Nov 18Nov 18
Waysfinding systemic changeChange, transition and transformation have been on my mind (and in my body) lately. It seems to be “in the air”. And the US election result…Nov 5Nov 5
Finding your way through the messy middle.I recently delivered the keynote address at a Change and Transformation conference. As I listened to the speakers, I was struck by the…Jul 302Jul 302
We are complexity walking.We tend to talk about complexity as something “out there”. A wicked problem to solve, a mess to order, a source of overwhelm and confusion…Nov 16, 20232Nov 16, 20232
On getting lostBeing really and truly lost triggers primal survival anxieties.Jul 17, 20232Jul 17, 20232
Complexity is not supposed to be complexLife is complex: an ever-changing tangle of joy and pain, failure and success, beauty and despair. Sometimes it sucks, like watching your…Jun 23, 20235Jun 23, 20235